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BenitoMussoliniBenito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883 in Predappio, Italy. His father was a blacksmith which meant Mussolini lived in the poor areas of Italy. He was named Benito after Mexican socialist reformer Benito Juarez. Because of how much his father was into socialism, Mussolini himself became a socialist further in his life. He became a teacher for a while but in 1902, left Italy to go live in Switzerland. This move of his was to avoid army service. While in Switzerland, he got involved in a socialist party but also got arrested twice for doing socialist violent strikes and was deported to Italy once. In 1904 he decided to return to Italy and served two years in the army. In 1906, he went back to teaching.
While being a teacher, he was also a journalist in many newspaper. He would write socialist articles, stories, and even wrote a few books. In January 20, 1910, a novel he co-wrote with Santi Corvaja was published but due to his anticlerical material, the Vatican made a truce with Mussolini and the book stopped its publication. By 1911, he became editor of the Local Socialist Party newspaper and raised its sales from 20,000 to 100,000. When World War I happened, Italy didn’t want to get involved but Mussolini wanted Italy to get involved. He saw this as an opportunity to rise but the party didn’t...

...How effective did BenitoMussolini manage Italian affairs between 1922 and 1945?
(Refer to achieving and consolidating control, political economy, Italian affairs, foreign policy.)
BenitoMussolini was born in 1883. In 1912 he became editor of the Avanti (a socialist newspaper.) In 1914 Mussolini left the socialist party over his pro-war views and formed his own newspaper ‘Il Popolo d’italia. In 1919 he formed the Fascist Party the ‘Fascio di Combattiemento’.
The reasons for the rise of Mussolini are as follows: There was great resentment with the treaty of Versailles. By the terms for the treaty of London Italy had been expected to gain certain territories especially in Yugoslavia. At Versailles (1919) President Wilson of America resisted these claims and Italy was left disappointed. Economic problems in Italy were horrific. Between 1914-1918 prices rose by 250% due to waves of strikes, 500,000 steelworkers went on strike in Milan in 1920 which was followed by an agricultural strike in the Po Valley in 1920. There was huge failure of democracy. A new voting system introduced in 1919 tended to fragment the groupings in parliament and so worsened the chances of effective government. Mussolini was getting a broad spectrum of support. In 1919 Mussolini formed the fascist party which gradually attracted a broad range of support. Nationalists found an...

...3) How far did Mussolini’s policies change Italian society?
a) Relations with the Catholic Church:
Even though Mussolini had seemed anti-clerical and had written “God Does Not Exist” he had began forming a good relationship with the Roman Catholic Church because of its huge power and influence. He had begun forming this good relationship by getting married in a church in 1926 and having his two children baptized. He had also closed down some wine shops and nightclubs. In 1929 the Lateran treaty was signed after a series of meetings it had recognized the pope’s sovereign rule, the church had received 750 million lire cash and 1000 million lire in government bonds for the loss of the papal states in 1860. Catholicism had also become the state religion; church marriages became legal, religious education were a must in secondary schools, catholic action would continue as long as it was independent of political parties and it was subordinate to the church’s hierarchy. This treaty had gotten the church and it’s faithful followers on Mussolini’s side. However, this treaty had angered the radical fascists who were anti-clerical since the independence of the church meant there would be no totalitarian rule. The church had also been against communism and socialism therefore when the fascist destroyed the left this had brought Mussolini closer to the church. Mussolini had also strengthened this relationship by exempting the clergy from...

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A RESEARCH PAPER OF BENITOMUSSOLINI
Presented by
Patrick Mentone
To
Mr.Quinn
For
US History
At
Fenwick High School
On
May 31,2013
BenitoMussolini was born on December 29, 1883 and died on April 28, 1945. Alessandro Mussolini was his father and he was a blacksmith. Benito says his father was his role model because he taught him everything he knew about politics. His mother was Rosa Mussolini. Alessandro and Rosa had three children, one girl and two boys. Benito’s siblings were Arnadlo and Edvige Mussolini. Benito had two wives, Ida Dalser and Rachele Guidi. Rachele and he had five children, two daughters and three sons. The sons’ names were Vittorio, Bruno, and Roman Mussolini. The daughters were very unique women because they were into politics like their father. Their names were Edaa and Anna Maria Mussolini. Benito’s education was very poor because he got into two fights as a child. He was expelled from one school because of this. He did not even graduate from high school, but he attended a boarding school and graduated as a very good student there. BenitoMussolini health was always an issue. He had high blood pressure throughout his young adult and adult life. He was injured in battle fighting for Italy during World War One. He took a very vicious...

...With brutal charisma and pounding fists, BenitoMussolini called upon the myth of a new roman empire. He made himself its Caesar. Mussolini became the Father of Fascism and seized power by a combination of terror and persuasion. He held Italy firmly in his grasp by crushing his enemies while still promising glory.
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born in Predappio on July 29, 1883. Son of a socialist blacksmith, he grew up to be a self-proclaimed "anti-patriot" like his father. He hadn't taken to school and rebelled against most things. He had gotten expelled from his first school, which was a catholic school ran my monks, though he did better in his second. He went on to become a qualified school teacher, even though he wasn't interested in teaching. BenitoMussolini had a passion for politics.
In June 1902, Mussolini went to Switzerland and got involved with some Italian socialists and got a job as a brick layer and joined the trade union. When he had suggested the very revolutionary idea for a general strike, he got expelled from Switzerland in 1903. He then went to an area called Trentino, which was ruled by the Austrians. The authorities soon labeled him as a trouble-maker; he encouraged the trade unions and attacked the Catholic Church. He was then expelled from Trentino in 1909.
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BenitoMussolini, Founding Father of Fascism
Mussolini once stated that “It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.” As you would expect words like these from the mouth of Mussolini himself had been the inspirational backing to this dictator’s rain as sole leader of Italy in the Fascist party for nearly 24 years. Before the war, Mussolini formed the Fascist Party of Italy, by gathering the roaring support of many unemployed WWI veterans, like him. He proved to be the founder of Fascism and he had united Italy as one. During the war, Mussolini became power hungry, after joining forces with Hitler and the country of Japan. Hitler had influenced Mussolini to make many poor choices which would ultimately lead to the deaths of the both of them and the slaughtering of Fascism itself. After Mussolini’s fall from power, which occurred in the midst of WWII, Italy was thrown into chaos as the remaining Fascists fought against the partisans and the Italian army was left with no orders as to what they must do. As one may expect, this was just a temporary setback, and Italy once again formed its democracy. This essay will look at Benito Mussolini’s effect on...

...BenitoMussolini:
The rise, the fall and
the reasons
Contents Page
* Introduction to the project: Page 2
* Introduction: Page 2
* Post WWI Italy: Page 2
* The Fascist movement: Reasons for their rise : Page 3
* The Fascist movement: The take-over: page3
* The beginning: Page 4
* The change: Page 4
* The next step: Page 5
* Mussolini and the “Empire”: Page 6
* Mussolini’s “puppet days” and downfall: Page 6
* The Disgraceful End of BenitoMussolini : Page 8
* The Influence of Fascist Italy on education : Page 8
Introduction to the project
In this essay I am aiming to follow Mussolini’s life in as much detail as I can, in order to pick out what he obviously done right in order to come to power in 20th century Italy. I will also be looking at significant and related dates that show the influence of his reign followed by some to perhaps point out the reasons why he fell from his high throne, leading to the collapse of the “Italian empire”.
With this project I aim to increase my understanding of Italy’s most influential leader, improve my research, literacy and presentation skills and most importantly my capability to be and individual learner.
Introduction
As a result of World War One, Italy had suffered badly and lost 460,000 soldiers. The...

...BenitoMussolini had a large impact on World War II. He wasn't always a powerful dictator though. At first he was a school teacher and a socialist journalist. He later married Rachele Guide and had 5 children. He was the editor of the Avanti, which was a socialist party newspaper in Milan.<br><br>BenitoMussolini founded the Fasci di Combattimento on March of 1919.<br><br>"This was a nationalistic, anti liberal, and anti socialist movement. This movement attracted mainly the lower middle class."1 Fascism was spreading across Europe. Mussolini was winning sympathy from King Victor Emmanuel III. Mussolini then threatened to march on Rome. This persuaded King Victor Emmanuel III to invite Mussolini to join a coalition, which strongly helped him gain more power.<br><br>BenitoMussolini brought Austria on Germany's side by a formal alliance. "In 1937, he accepted a German alliance. The name of this alliance was the Anti Comntern Pact. On April 13, 1937 BenitoMussolini annexed Albania. He then told the British ambassador that not even the bribe of France and North Africa would keep him neutral."2 The British ambassador was appalled and dismayed.<br><br>On May 28, 1937, Mussolini strongly gave thought to declaring war. He then attacked the Riviera across the Maritime. "On September 13, 1937 he opened an offensive...